Join us for GASOC's August Journal Club on Wednesday 21st August at 6pm BST/7pm Zambia time/8pm Ethiopia time.
This month we will be focusing on anaesthesia with 2 interesting speakers Dr Kotutu Mulenga from Zambia and Dr Ayantu from Ethiopia, discussing papers on obstetric anaesthesia topics.
Dr Kotutu Lombe Mulenga is a medical doctor from Zambia currently practicing at the University Teaching Hospitals (“UTH”) in Lusaka Zambia. She is in her second year pursuing a Master of Medicine at the University of Zambia in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care.
For the last two years, she has been a member of the Department of Anaesthesia and works under the supervision of a team of anesthesiologists as a trainee. During this time, she has had extensive experience in providing anaesthetic care to obstetric patients at the Women and Newborn Hospital of UTH.
Kotutu’s interests include research on improving the quality of anaesthetic care for patients in low-middle income countries. She is currently undertaking research on low cost interventions to manage anxiety in pediatric patients as part of her requirements to obtain a Master of Medicine in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care.Outside of work, Kotutu engages in small scale farming and she likes to travel.
Dr Mulenga will be presenting the paper 'Anaesthesia related maternal mortality in low income and middle income countries: a systematic review and meta analysis'. This publication is available to pre-read in the side deck section of this event or via this link:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27102195/
Our second speaker, Dr Ayantu Hordofa Benti is a final year Anesthesiology, critical care and pain medicine specialty Resident at Addis Ababa university school of medicine in Ethiopia. Dr Benti initially gained her medical degree from Adama science and technology university and is now a student at Arsi university, since 2019. She was awarded as a top female scorer from the graduating Bach. Following this Dr Benti worked as General practitioner and lecturer at Asella Teaching and referral Hospital for two and half years before starting residency. Her interests include in cardiac Anesthesiology, regional Anesthesiology and intensive care. Dr Benti recently recieved a certificate of appreciation for her work in a quality improvement project of digitalization Anaesthesia records in TiruAnbessa Specialty Hospital. Outside of medicine Dr Benti enjoys cooking and listening to songs.
Dr Betni will be discussing the paper Evaluation of practice change following SAFE obstetric courses in Tanzania: a prospective cohort study. This publication is available to pre-read in the side deck section of this event or via this link:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37431149/
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